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RMS Titanic: Anniversaries

Answer

This Department is aware of a number of initiatives to mark the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic. A number of national and regional museums and heritage centres have plans to mark the occasion. These include the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, and the cities of Southampton, where the Titanic embarked, and Belfast, where she was built.Southampton city council was awarded £4.6 million by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) in March 2010 to create a new ““Southampton Sea City Museum”” which will include a permanent gallery on ““Southampton's Titanic Story””.In 2008 the HLF awarded a grant of £50,000 to Northern Ireland Science Park (NISP) for a project based at the Titanic's Dock and Pump-House in Belfast and also awarded a grant of £174,500 to National Museums Northern Ireland (Ulster Folk and Transport Museum) towards the development of its collection ““Titanic: Built in Belfast””. In July 2011 HLF awarded a grant of £3,250,000 to a project to restore the Nomadic—the Titanic's tender vessel—to restore and tell the story of the Nomadic and Belfast in 1911 and 1912.In addition, the Phillips Memorial Park, in Godalming Surrey, the largest built memorial to a single Titanic victim, received confirmation of a full second round grant of over £335,000. This project is a joint scheme between HLF and the Big Lottery Fund's joint Parks for People programme and will restore the memorial in time for the centenary.A 'Your Heritage' award from HLF is also being used to support a project in Maryport, exploring the impact of the sinking of the Titanic.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

536 c920-1W; 83684

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Anniversaries RMS Titanic

Link

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